Hand bag



RAYSJE 7 M. GOLDSMITH HAND BAG Filed April 5,

Dec 25,1923

Patented Dec. 25, 1923. y y n UNITEDl STATES PATENT OFFICE;

MAURICE GOLDSM'TTH, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAND BAG.

Application mea Aprn 5, 1921. serial No. 458,723.

To all whom t may concern.' whenfolded to protect the same when the Beit known that I, MAURICE GoLDsMITH, a flap is laid over the foldedmirrors. y citizen of the United States, residing at The mirrors on theflaps may be omitted New York city, in the county 'of New York ifdesired and the plain tia-ps andk raised l5 5 and State of New York,have invented cerstrips utilized toy protect the mirror on the tain newand useful Improvements in Hand front of the bag against breakage. iBags, of which the following is a speciii-v As the mirrors are integralwith the bag cation. f they cannot become lost or broken by acci- Myinvention relates to hand bags for dentally dropping' them as would bethe case 50 women and it is my object to construct a if they were aseparate structure and carried hand bag with an integral triple mirrorin in a pocket in the hand bag. which the mirrors are protected frombreak- In use the flap is raised and the mirrors onl age and the mainmirror forms one wall of the side flaps are swung open when a woman thehand bag. y can see on both sides of her face at the same 55 In thedrawing which shows one emboditime instead vof moving -a single mirrorment of my invention Fig. 1 is a face view around as has been the casewhen the hand of a bag with the cover yflap open and the bag had but onemirror thereon. mirrors extended and Fig. 2 is an end view e I claim Yof the structure of Fig. 1, partly broken o l. A hand bag comprising afront, a back 60 away, with the mirrors and coverflap closed. and abody, the back being extended over The hand bag is preferably of theusual the front forming a cover flap, Vmeans for construction having afront 1, a back 2 and Securing the free end of the flap to the front, Ya body portion 3 and is provided with a extension fiaps on either sideof the front carrying handle 1. The back is preferably and foldablethereon and mirrors on the 65 extended over the front and forms a coverfront and each of said extension flaps and flap 5 withl a fasteningdevice 6, 6 to keep protecting strips on the front above and beitclosed. The front of the bag is extended low the mirror thereon andextendingabove laterally forming flaps 7 and 8 which are the planek ofthe mirrors and flaps when foldable thereon. These flaps may beintefolded. n y 70 gral with the front or sewed on. 2. A hand bagcomprising a front, a back The main panel 9 of a triple mirror is and abody, the ,back being extended over l secured to the front 1 and formsone wall of to front forming a cover iiap, 4means for sethe hand bag andthe side mirrors 10 and 11 curing the free end of the `flap to thefront, are secured tothe flaps 7 and 8. These flaps extension flaps oneitherkside of the front 75 and side mirrors fold down on the front ofand foldable thereon, a mirror on the front the bag with the side andmain mirrors face protecting strips of rigid material on the to face. ofront Vabove and below the mirror and ex- Raised strips 12and 13 may besecured to tending above the plane'of the mirror. the front 1 above andbelow the main mirror In testimony whereof I have aiiixed my Se 9 andare thick enough to extend above the signature. n

mirrorsl 9, 10 and 11 and yflaps 7 and 8 MAURICE GQLDSMITH.

